Rhino Photos

The word rhinoceros is derived through Latin from the Ancient Greek: ῥῑνόκερως, which is composed of ῥῑνο- (rhino-, "nose")
and κέρας (keras, "horn"). The plural in English is rhinoceros or rhinoceroses. The collective noun for a group of rhinoceroses
is crash or herd.
The five living species fall into three categories. The two African species, the White Rhinoceros and the Black Rhinoceros,
diverged during the early Pliocene (about 5 million years ago) but the Dicerotini group to which they belong originated in
the middle Miocene, about 14.2 million years ago. The main difference between black and white rhinos is the shape of their
mouths. White rhinos have broad flat lips for grazing and black rhinos have long pointed lips for eating foliage.
A popular — if unverified — theory claims that the name White Rhinoceros was actually a mistake, or rather a corruption
of the word wyd ("wide" in Afrikaans), referring to their square lips.
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